“I will build myself up so high in such a short time that when he leaves me, I will become a lightning storm, a nuclear apocalypse. I will not come out of this with nothing.” FictionRelationshipRevengeContemporaryStanding Up For Oneself Book:If I Had Your Face Source: If I Had Your Face
“I will cry because the process of raising you will have made me sentimental, and I will wrap my arms around you and marvel at how beautiful you are, how tall and strong and shining. And all of my memories of you will dance in front of my eyes as I thirstily listen to all that you have to say, laughing and holding my hands and leaning on my shoulder, or perhaps putting your head in my lap the way you would do as a child. And then it is time for you to leave me again, to go back to your own life, humming with aspiration. You don't have to worry about me - I will be the happiest I have ever been, even as my heart breaks a little to let go of you.” LossGrowing UpMotherhoodFranceschaIfihadyourfaceParentchild Book:If I Had Your Face Source: If I Had Your Face
“I have always thought of hope as a natural folly of youth that should be discarded as soon as possible. It is inexplicable to me, and I did not know I was capable of surprising myself. Perhaps I liked him more than I realized. I should have known that I could not afford to.” Sad Book:If I Had Your Face Source: If I Had Your Face
“It's not an original thought perhaps, but I think people watch so much TV because life would otherwise be unbearable. Unless you are born into a chaebol family or your parents were the fantastically lucky who purchased land in Gangnam decades ago, you have to work and work and work for a salary that isn't even enough to buy a house or pay for childcare, and you sit at a desk until your spine twists, and your boss is somehow incompetent and a workaholic at the same time and at the end of the day you have to drink to bear it all. But I grew up not knowing the difference between a bearable life and an unbearable life, and by the time I discovered there was such a thing, it was too late.” Sad Book:If I Had Your Face Source: If I Had Your Face
“When I ask her if she ever wants to get married, she snorts. "Not meant to be," she says, blinking her mink-like eyelashes and wondering out loud at my rudeness for even raising the subject to her. But Kyuri is still the one out of all of us--even including the impressionable Sujin who lives in front of the TV--who cries the most when one of the characters has to leave the other for martyr-like reasons.” RomanceSad Author:Frances Cha
“Sometimes, when he is holding me and I feel like I am liquid in his arms, I wonder if anything else in my life will seem real after this. It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached and touched a burning star, and it is both unendurable and terrifying.” BeautifulRomance Book:If I Had Your Face Source: If I Had Your Face
“Sometimes, when he is holding me and I feel like I am liquid in his arms, I wonder if anything else in my life will seem real after this. It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached out and touched a burning star, and it is both unendurable and terrifying. I am glad, then, that I will never love someone again in this way. I would not survive a second time.” LoveRelationshipsIntense Love Book:If I Had Your Face Source: If I Had Your Face